UTEP basketball legend Willie Cager, a member of the historic, ground-breaking 1966 Texas Western national championship team and a lifelong backer of Miner athletics, has died. The 81-year-old passed ...

TEXAS, USA — On Sunday, the basketball world celebrated the 57th anniversary of the Texas Western Miners 1966 National Championship team. Led by coach Don Haskins, Texas Western became the first team ...

COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is a version of the game story transmitted by The Associated Press from the 1966 NCAA championship game between Kentucky and Texas Western. Much was ...

The NCAA paid tribute Saturday night to the team that broke barriers in 1966. At halftime of the Syracuse-North Carolina game, the famous 1966 Texas Western team that won the NCAA championship was ...

Willie Cager was a historic 1966 men's basketball NCAA championship team member, the first team with an all-Black starting lineup to win the NCAA championship. Full of love, spirit, confidence, and ...

EL PASO, Texas (AP) David Lattin says something happens every day to remind him of Texas Western's historic NCAA championship in 1966, when the Miners won with the first all-black starting lineup in a ...

UTEP is breaking back out the Texas Western gear. To celebrating the 60th anniversary of the 1966 Texas Western College national champion men’s basketball team, UTEP is partnering with adidas and ...

In the rich history of college basketball, one game stands apart for its sociological and historical ramifications. Texas Western's 1966 national championship is much bigger than just the only ...

For about 40 years, Joe Gomez assembled an impressive collection of memorabilia tied to the historic Texas Western College, now UTEP, 1966 NCAA men’s championship basketball team. He’s loaned most of ...

Members of the 1966 Texas Western College basketball championship team laugh together at a special exhibit on the team in the Union building on the UTEP campus in El Paso, Texas, Thursday, Feb. 4, ...